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Chicago Books
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 731 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 770,639 ratings — published 2003
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.68 — 242,458 ratings — published 1984
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,278 ratings — published 1906
The Great Believers (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.30 — 176,746 ratings — published 2018
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 174 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,432,388 ratings — published 2011
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 172 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,868,768 ratings — published 2003
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,281 ratings — published 2007
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,156 ratings — published 1940
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 764,871 ratings — published 2016
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,173 ratings — published 1971
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 125 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,233 ratings — published 1991
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 385,433 ratings — published 2000
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,220,244 ratings — published 2018
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,741 ratings — published 1996
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,127 ratings — published 2016
Chicago: City on the Make (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,147 ratings — published 1951
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,637 ratings — published 1991
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,429 ratings — published 2012
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,502 ratings — published 2018
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,467 ratings — published 2012
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 88 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,153,532 ratings — published 2013
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 85 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 564,450 ratings — published 2023
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,036 ratings — published 1900
The Coast of Chicago: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,734 ratings — published 1990
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,046 ratings — published 1953
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.85 — 113,092 ratings — published 1959
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,638,957 ratings — published 2012
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 215,088 ratings — published 2001
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.21 — 12,451 ratings — published 2022
An American Summer (Audio CD)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,020 ratings — published 2019
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 80 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,202 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.48 — 119,646 ratings — published 2010
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.69 — 413,963 ratings — published 2010
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,798 ratings — published 2008
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by (shelved 70 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 181,314 ratings — published 2001
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.63 — 10,523 ratings — published 2021
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)
by (shelved 68 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,295 ratings — published 2004
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 163,918 ratings — published 2002
Division Street: America (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.17 — 707 ratings — published 1966
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 85,176 ratings — published 2017
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.15 — 946 ratings — published 2000
The Man with the Golden Arm (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,309 ratings — published 1949
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.54 — 54,834 ratings — published 2013
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.39 — 130,667 ratings — published 2006
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,649 ratings — published 1982
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 113,499 ratings — published 2009
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 118,611 ratings — published 2008
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.64 — 5,003 ratings — published 2010
Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.41 — 136,160 ratings — published 2005
Chicago: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.81 — 442 ratings — published 2009
“The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.”
― Never Come Morning
― Never Come Morning
“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
